The Cattle Dog's Revenge
Author: Jack Drake
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1921920491
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Revenge
Author: Stuart Haussler
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2013-02-06
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1481710575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevenge means to inflict harm or injury in return for a wrong, imagined or real. We have all at one time or another felt this emotion and experienced the desire to resolve the hurt we have suffered no matter how great or minor the hurt. This novel depicts a wrong, of unimaginable proportions, inflicted against an officer of the laws wife and his subsequent search for revenge. How, in this case, such a satisfactory resolution is extracted from the reality of life is the essence of the novel.
Revenge and Reconciliation
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2000-10-14
Total Pages: 669
ISBN-13: 8184753187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original, provocative and compelling reading of the subcontinent’s history In this remarkable study, well-known biographer Rajmohan Gandhi, underscoring the prominence in the Mahabharata of the revenge impulse, follows its trajectory in South Asian history. Side by side, he traces the role played by reconcilers up to present times, like the Buddha, Mahavira and Asoka. Encompassing myth and historical fact, the author moves from the circumstances of Drona’s death and Parasurama’s slaying of the Kshatriyas to the burst of Islam in India and Akbar’s success in gaining acceptance for it, the executions of Guru Arjan Dev and Guru Tegh Bahadur, and Shivaji’s achievement of self-rule. His explanation of the 1947 division of India identifies the role of the 1857 Rebellion in shaping Gandhi’s thinking and strategy, and reflects on the wounds of Partition. The survey of post-Independence India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka also touches upon the tragic bereavements of six of their women leaders. Incisive and finely argued, Revenge and Reconciliation compels us to confront historical and contemporary realities of intolerance, while pointing to possible strategies of mutual accommodation in India and the rest of South Asia at the threshold of the twenty-first century.
Queensland’s Frontier Wars
Author: Jack Drake
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2021-06-11
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1925877922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQueensland’s Frontier Wars is an attempt to document the known confrontations between either white settlers or white and native police and First Nations people where deaths were reported. It is now an accepted premise that these confrontations were wars to gain access to the land, because, if not wars, then it was mass murder. No one in Queensland was charged with the murder of First Nations during these confrontations. The book shows the invasion from New South Wales into southern Queensland and the advances from the sea in central and north Queensland. The ‘dispersement’ of the First Nations people from their land was violent and efficient using far superior weaponry. This book adds significantly to the true and uncomfortable history of Queensland.
Bronco Harry’s Last Ride
Author: Jack Drake
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1925877299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow a second volume of Bush Ballads and Yarns in the same style, has been compiled by Jack – Bronco Harry’s Last Ride. Bush Poetry Awards Won by Jack Drake • Bush Poet of the Year, 2001. The Asthma Foundation of NSW • Winner, Original Performance, National Bush Poetry Championship. Brisbane EKKA 2001 • The Tenterfield Oracles of the Bush, Written 1999, Performance 2000 & 2001 • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth, Finalist with The Cattle Dog’s Revenge CD, 2002 • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth, Finalist with Dinkum Poetry CD, 2003 • Golden Gumleaf Trophy at the Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth,2004 for • best, Original Verse Book of the Year with The Cattle Dog’s Revenge Bush Ballads and • Yarns published by CQUPress. Second publication by Boolarong Press. • Australian Bush Laureate Awards at Tamworth. Finalist with Bronco Harry’s Last Ride CD, 2006 • Golden Gumleaf Trophy at the Australian Bush Laureate Award at Tamworth for Best • Album of the year 2011 with his CD Australian Bush Poetry Classics The Australian bushman’s sense of humour is legendary: dry, laconic and with a good bite. Jack Drake is one of Australia’s best writers and reciters of this comic bush verse. But he also has a great sense of the farcical and the crazy tall story. These are more ballads and yarns you’ll be wanting to recite in the evenings on the verandah. Again, we guarantee a belly-full of laughs or your money back.
Blue Dog
Author: Louis de Bernieres
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0143780107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the heat and dust. However, after a cyclone hits, things change for Mick. Exploring the flood waters, he finds a lost puppy covered in mud and half-drowned. Mick and his dog immediately become inseparable as they take on the adventures offered by their unusual home, and the business of growing up, together.
The Wild West in Australia and America
Author: Jack Drake
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1921920475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume of The Wild West, Drake tells stories about the squattocracy, the cattle kings and the land barons; mounted police, sheriffs and posses in the pursuit of their elusive prey; bushrangers and outlaws and why they are so loved in popular fantasy; stockmen, ringers and cowboys; early white settlement and both friendly and hostile contact with indigenous peoples; and six shooters, gun slingers, snider rifles and infamous shoutouts.
A Land Remembered
Author: Patrick D Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1561645826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Tender Is the Flesh
Author: Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1982150920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
The Power of the Dog
Author: Don Winslow
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 2006-05-09
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1400096936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Book One of the Power of the Dog Series Set about ten years prior to The Cartel, this gritty novel introduces a brilliant cast of characters. Art Keller is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.
